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Bradley Cooper: “I was not expecting” backlash over DNC appearance

Bradley Cooper responded Tuesday to the media backlash aimed at him for attending the Democratic National Convention.

In an appearance on CBS’ “Late Late Show with James Corden,” Cooper talks about how he visited his hometown of Philadelphia to attend the DNC with his mother and girlfriend Irina Shayk.

He said he wasn’t expecting the reaction he got from conservatives.

“I wasn’t expecting that…The Republicans were up in arms because I was there listening to the president speak,” Cooper said.

Cooper’s “The Hangover” director Todd Phillips then butted in, saying, “Yeah, but [that was] because you played Chris Kyle in ‘American Sniper,’ which is like the Mob being mad at [Robert] De Niro for being in ‘The Intern.'”

The two of them then regaled Corden with tales of meeting former president Bill Clinton while filming “Hangover Part II” in Bangkok.

Watch the full clip below.

EARLIER:

Bradley Cooper is not a genetically modified talking raccoon. Nor is he a scumbag schoolteacher with a penchant for hangovers. He is also not the deadliest sniper in U.S. history.

That, and actors historically leaning to the left side of the political spectrum, apparently didn’t stop some conservatives from angrily decrying the actor who brought us Sack Lodge and Brian Gilcrest.

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